Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

by Kylie Lee Baker

I only have one life, and that’s fucking terrifying. I burned through so many lives in video games, died so many times. No one would ever make a game where you only have one chance. But that’s all any of us get. And the worst part is I know I’m losing. You get a sense for it in games when things aren’t going your way, when it’s better to just start over. But this is my only life and I’m losing already, and I don’t know how to make it stop.”

saying it out loud makes her feel like he’s peeled all her skin off and is staring at the map of her veins.

You can only scrape so much out of a person in one day.